Parents are less likely to seek treatment for a sick baby girl than a boy in India, where more female infants die within the first month of being born, the United Nations says.

Common dieting advice urges people to either eat fewer carbohydrates or less fat in order to shed weight. But a study Tuesday found neither approach is better than the other.

Older adults who have acquired positive beliefs about old age from their surrounding culture are less likely to develop dementia,

Praava Health signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ahsania Mission Cancer & General Hospital, whereby Ahsania

Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed an alliance to advance development of Novartis’ drug candidate KDU731

To diagnose a disease correctly, we have three tools in our hand. The first one is meticulous history taking. Taking history with due

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new recommendations to establish global care standards for healthy pregnant

We all need some support from time to time, especially from our partners. However, it can be difficult to know what is the right thing to say or do to help, and sometimes you may even feel like you are making things worse.

Two draft reports from the National Toxicology Programme (NTP), released recently, offer mixed findings on a potential association

Recently Health Minister of Afghanistan Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz has announced the induction of Rota vaccine in the country’s

Nowadays, people are much more conscious about their skin’s beauty. But refined sugar, which we use vastly in our daily life, can

The current spread of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia is likely to be the result of two mutations combining in 2008,

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka celebrated World Cancer Day which takes place around the world every year on February 4 to save millions of

In Bangladesh, 6,582 women die from cervical cancer every year. If the number seems small at first glance, here's another: 11,956 cases get diagnosed annually, while over 58.7 million women (aged 15 or above) are at risk.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) recommends forming an independent body in a bid to check the irregular operations of private healthcare sector across the country.

Muslim-majority countries have higher maternal, stillbirth, newborn and child mortality rates compared to the global average and

Recently, a patient named Nayan Mollah (26, M) was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals Dhaka with the complaints of seizure, dysphasia

In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, smoking had a dramatic effect on mortality.

World Cancer Day is the one singular initiative under which the entire world can unite together in the fight against the global cancer epidemic. It takes place every year on February 4.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasised that national programmes should boost active case-finding, strengthen surveillance, improve contact-tracing and focus more on early detection of leprosy cases among children to ensure achievement of the